The original cartoon, "No one knows you are a dog on the Internet," sold for $175000.

CTOnews.com, October 17 (Xinhua)-- "Nobody knows you are a dog on the Internet" is a well-known "online motto" that was first published by the New Yorker on July 5, 1993. The original cartoon of the maxim was auctioned by Heritage Auctions and sold for $175000 yesterday (CTOnews.com Note: about 1.279 million yuan).

The motto (cartoon) of newatlas, a foreign media source of ▲ images, was originally painted by artist Peter Steiner, and since then, the reprint right alone has won it "more than $250000 (currently about 1.825 million yuan)", and the original work will be auctioned on October 6.

"this cartoon alerts us because we are cautious about what anyone with basic online knowledge can do," said Bob Mankoff, then editor of the New Yorker cartoon. "

Bill Gates reprinted the cartoon for the first time in his 1995 book The Road Ahead, for which he paid a reprint fee of $200 (currently about 1460 yuan).

Another important milestone in the cartoon's path to global recognition came on February 29, 2012, when Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg projected the cartoon right behind her when he announced an advertising opportunity for marketers, a step in the company's stock IPO.

▲ was the speech of Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook at that time. Tu Yuan sandiegouniontribune considered that the cartoon appeared in 1993, so it was quite forward-looking. At that time, very few users used the word "Internet". In fact, a year after the publication of the cartoon, Bryant Gumbel, the host of the well-known North American show Today Show, still asked his colleagues, "what is the Internet?"